Tiling.



'No. 746,290. r I PATEN'TED DEG. 8,1903;

' G. P. GHAPPBLL.

TILING.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.-

GEORGE P. GHAPPELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,290, dated December 1903- Application filed August 9, 1902. Serial No. 119,089. (No modeh) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. CHAPPELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tiling; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in tiling; and it consists in the novel construction of the tiling. v

The objects of my invention are to simplify and cheapen the construction of tiled floors, walls, and the'like.

In the accompanying drawings I illustrate a tile embodying my invention and the method of laying the same.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective elevation ofa single tile or section embodying my invention,and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a plurality of such sections joined together. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of a plurality of tiles joined together, and Fig. 4 is a detail View showing how the cement layer may be interlocked with the base. I

My improved tile consists of a Wooden or other suitable base preferably tongued on one side and grooved on the other to permit close connection of the tiles.

Upon this base is a layer of cement of such character that it will cling firmly to the base and which is notched at intervals to permit nails to be driven through the base to secure the tile to the floor. These notches may be filled by pieces inserted after the several tiles have been placed side by side. The said tiles or tile strips may be of any convenient length, and may even be of the commercial lengths of the ordinary tongue-and groove boards commonly used for flooring. Such tile strips may,

be cut to any desirable length, the cementor artificial stone employed being preferably of a character such that it may be sawed.

In the accompanying drawings, a indicates 'the'said base, and b the cement layer thereon. c 0 indicate the said notches in the side of the cement strip, adapted to receive the small pieces d.

The base a may be formed of Wood, compoboard, or any other suitable material. For the layer 1) I may employ any suitable cement or artificial stone, but prefer to employ a cement made bymixing solutions of oXid and chlorid ofmagnesium, as this cement has the property of clinging very firmly to a wooden base, and, moreover, it may be cut by a saw. It is also cheap and easily made and sets quickly. The cement layer may be applied to the wooden base by hand or by machinery,

and when applied and while the cement is.

still soft the notches or holes 0, provided to permit the tiling to be nailed down, may he formed in the cement layer. These notches need not necessarily be of the shape shown. They may be of any suitable or desirable shape. grooves e at intervals, so as to give it the appearance of being divided into sections. When a number of tile strips are joined together, the tiled surface thereby formed will The cement layer may have cross have the-appearance of being formed of a number of square or rectangular tiles of the ordinary type.

Inusing my improved tiling the several tile strips cut to the proper length if necessary are joined together in the same manner as ordinary tongue-and-groove flooring, the adjacent edges of the several cement strips being first moistened with a liquid cement, preferably of the same character as that used in the construction of the tiling. The tile strips maybe nailed down as they are-laid by nails driven through the notches or through the holes formed by the registering notches of adjacent strips. Pieces d, previously prepared and which may be of the material used in the construction of the tiling, are then moistened around the edges and on the bottom with cement of similar character and then inserted into the spaces formed by the hardens, it is mechanicallylocked to the base ing-grooves f adapted to receive projecting by those portions of it which fill the lockingportions of the tile coating, whereby the tile grooves. coating and base are looked together mechan- Having thus completely described my inically. 5 vention, what I claim, and desire to secure by In testimony whereof I affix my signature [5 Letters Patent, isin the presence of two witnesses.

As an article of manufacture, a tile strip GEO. P. GHAPPELL. composed of a base of wood or other suitable Witnesses: material, provided with a coating of tiling CHARLES LAO. HOFF,

1o material, the said base having rentrant lock- HARRY M. MARBLE. 

